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What happened to the Moslem population as the Portuguese under Manuel I tried to control the spice trade with India?

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... the Portuguese made a dramatic, if not wholly successful, attempt to drive the Moslems from the Indian Ocean and to replace them and their Venetian commercial allies as spice merchants to Europe ...

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